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Using quotes to find what I really want

If I'm looking for info about chromium-bsu (a game), and I enter 'chromium-bsu' (w/o the quotes) in the search box, I get info mostly about the chromium browser. Searching for "chromium-bsu" (with the quotes) solves this problem.

This may be non obvious and may even be a bug. Can anyone shed some light on this issue? -- Karol 13:45, 25 January 2012 (EST)

Yeah I noticed that some time ago, but never investigated it. Now that you've given me an input I can see that this could actually be a (known? didn't search for it) bug: searching for a string with a dash in the middle (without quotes) gives the same results as searching only for the part of the string before the dash, but without previewing the matching content (the dash and the second part of the string are ignored).

When searching Arch wiki for chromium-bsu I get matches for both chromium and chromium-bsu, so it doesn't exclude the 'bsu' part, but unnecessarily clutters the search results. -- Karol 14:43, 27 January 2012 (EST)